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number8
11-20-2016, 09:22 PM
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/The_Love_Witch_official_poster .png/220px-The_Love_Witch_official_poster .png

IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3908142/)

number8
11-20-2016, 09:29 PM
Runs longer than the movies its referencing would have been in their era. Would've been tighter if it was 30 minutes shorter. On a surface level, it's a lot of fun to watch its Technicolor recreation (and play a game of spot the anachronisms), but it's also a good example of a hyper-accurate homage that makes time to critique and subvert the politics of the genre with more modern ideologies.

I gotta check out Biller's previous films.

Ivan Drago
11-21-2016, 01:47 AM
I want to see this so bad.

Irish
11-21-2016, 02:26 AM
Her first, Viva, is on Mubi for the next ~28 days

https://mubi.com/showing/viva

Grouchy
05-26-2017, 06:14 PM
Runs longer than the movies its referencing would have been in their era.
This is exactly what I thought. The movie has problems with length and pacing, which the type of film is styled after would've never had.

Other than that, I enjoyed it a lot. The cinematographer is a goddamn genius, I don't think this type of homage is usually this well done. And the core performance by one Samantha Robinson is pretty good since it's highly stylized and filled with mannerisms and yet it works very well when it has to.

number8
12-07-2017, 07:06 PM
What the fuck. (https://twitter.com/missannabiller/status/938829359456051200)

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More in the link.

number8
12-07-2017, 07:10 PM
That must've made the film's success extra satisfying.

Grouchy
12-07-2017, 07:25 PM
What the fuck? Everyone who actually did that should be blacklisted for life.

EDIT: But why would they sabotage the film they were working on? Did they just not get the intentional campiness? That's just weird.

Spinal
03-11-2018, 07:49 PM
I'm not sure that the film's thesis, so much as I could understand it, makes a lot of sense. But as an homage to a different time period, it's pretty remarkable. The costumes, lighting and make-up are amazing. It started to lose me midway through, but won me back with the faux-renaissance fair section. If Biller made another movie in the future, I'd be curious.